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pauljessup wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:32 pm Thanks for wishing me luck! It should be on the Nintendo Switch soonish, so that's exciting.

As for the method I'm using...it actually wasn't the first method I used for something like this. Back with the game I made last year (Bad Writer) I used a storylet style system, though I didn't call it a "storylet" cause I had no idea what those were just yet. I just called them events, but they were pretty much the same thing. And I did it the way you mentioned above...and it got so messy so fast! The game was short (about a 1/2 hour worth of gameplay), but all the little things added up so quickly.

pauljessup wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:32 pm So, I learned a lot from that! I'm going to refine the idea for my next game, for sure. Figure out a better way to trigger events and signals to create the storylets. I know there are a few modules already in love and Lua that handle signal/event sending, and I'll see if I can kind of get these to work with how I want this to work. Though, in the end, it might be quicker to write my own, since it's just a simple idea that should hopefully make complicated storylets far easier to write and maintain. We'll see!

pauljessup wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 4:09 pm Oh that's really interesting! A fragment of objects! I like that a lot. I can see a lot of possibilities, but it would also cut down on a ton of writing/rewriting for various changes in variables. That is a cool idea!

pauljessup wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 6:21 pm I sort of did something (SORT OF) in Bad Writer, when I generated random magazine and short story titles. It was basically mad libs, lol. I would take portions of each, randomize certain parts, squish them together. Not anywhere near as robust as what you're talking about, but it was fun to do (and for some reason, writers who played the game really liked the auto-generated stuff)